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National Affairs Peter Brent 24 November 2018 Peter Brent’s election-day round-up
National Affairs Paul Rodan 23 November 2018 The Victorian premier is pinning his hopes on majority government — and the polls are encouraging National Affairs Tim Colebatch 16 November 2018 Labor is a clear favourite to win this month’s election. But minor parties and independents are also on the march National Affairs Paul Rodan 2 November 2018 The polls aren’t looking good for Matthew Guy’s Liberals in Victoria National Affairs Paul Rodan 6 August 2018 Some loss of seats seems likely this November, and minority government might be the best Labor can hope for
National Affairs Tim Colebatch 10 May 2018 The prime minister and the Victorian premier are talking infrastructure after a long federal funding drought
National Affairs Tim Colebatch 2 May 2018 Cautious in parts, extravagant in others, the Victorian budget is built on a boom National Affairs James Murphy 28 March 2018 By the time a new lord mayor is elected in May, quite a few electors will have voted twice Books & Arts Alan Davies 27 March 2018 Books | How did the Victorian capital regain the “intensive urbanity” that made it Australia’s leading city in the 1890s? National Affairs Tim Colebatch 18 March 2018 Voters swung to Labor in Batman and South Australia, but with very different results
National Affairs Peter Brent 16 March 2018 With third parties playing a big role, this weekend’s votes in Melbourne and South Australia are unusually hard to pick
National Affairs James Murphy 16 February 2018 A looming court case is further evidence of a deep divide within a once-powerful election-winning machine National Affairs Bill Hannan 11 January 2018 Before he joined the Age, Ron Tandberg played a key role in Victorian teachers’ campaign for professional recognition National Affairs Tim Colebatch 11 December 2017 Dig a little deeper into the result of the Northcote by-election, and there’s hope yet for Labor in what was starting to look like Greens territory National Affairs Tim Colebatch 3 May 2017 The Victorian government needs to take a longer view in framing budget policy
National Affairs Paul Rodan 24 April 2017 Victoria could experience two shortlived governments in a row unless Labor can lift its performance in key areas
National Affairs James Murphy 6 March 2017 Forget what you’ve heard about infrastructure – it might be time to put the politics back in National Affairs James Murphy 14 December 2015 The Victorian auditor-general’s criticism of the quality of bureaucratic advice on the contentious East West Link raises broader concerns about the public service, writes… National Affairs Tim Colebatch 5 May 2015 Victoria’s Labor treasurer might have echoed Tolstoy in his budget speech, writes Tim Colebatch, but the fine print doesn’t rise to the challenges facing the state National Affairs Tim Colebatch 4 May 2015 This week’s Victorian budget has passed up the opportunity to borrow at historically cheap rates to fund essential infrastructure, writes Tim Colebatch
National Affairs Tim Colebatch 24 February 2015 Elections in Victoria and Queensland have caught the pollsters wrong-footed, writes Tim Colebatch. Are unexpected preference flows making Australian elections harder to predict?
National Affairs Paul Rodan 3 February 2015 Victoria’s upper house has a small but potentially influential contingent of micro-party MPs, writes Paul Rodan. Like its federal counterpart, the state government… Books & Arts Judith Brett 27 October 2014 Dick Hamer’s election as Victorian Liberal leader was a seachange in the state’s politics and culture, writes Judith Brett National Affairs Paul Rodan 30 June 2014 Paul Rodan looks at Victoria’s stubborn tendency to vote Labor in state and federal elections National Affairs Alistair Harkness and Brian Costar 14 March 2012 A major constitutional crisis was narrowly avoided in Victoria, write Alistair Harkness and Brian Costar, but its cause hasn’t gone away
National Affairs Norman Abjorensen 18 March 2011 New premiers in Victoria and New South Wales face very different challenges, writes Norman Abjorensen
National Affairs Peter Browne 10 September 2010 Every Australian state and territory has experienced a minority government over the past twenty years. And it’s a surprisingly strong field National Affairs Brian Costar & David Hayward 3 September 2010 In Victoria, Steve Bracks’s minority government transformed a knife-edge win into electoral longevity and parliamentary reform, write Brian Costar and David Hayward Essays & Reportage Brian Costar & Jennifer Curtin 22 March 2010 In Tasmania, Greens leader Nick McKim is pushing for Labor or the Liberals to strike a written agreement with his party in return for its support. Brian Costar and… National Affairs Brian Costar 14 May 2009 The Brimbank Council scandal illustrates all that’s wrong with party factions, writes Brian Costar